#Make a solid in sketchup plus

Though not as serious as putting primitives there, in your model it isn’t necessary as all the nested Groups are associated with the same layer as their container.

You also have nested Groups and Components associated with other than layer0.You should always draw all primitives on layer0 and only associate Groups or Components with other layers to control visibility. You have all your primitive geometry (edges, faces) associated with other than layer0.You are not using layers correctly for SketchUp. This would likely be slower than what Gully proposed, but I describe it because it is closer to how you originally imagined working.įor the sake of education, here’s a discussion of issues I found in your model: Now the solid tools subtract should work, as everything is a solid - though you have to do it one letter at a time. Finally, you could position the components on the board. Then you could make a solid Component of the board. SketchUp should recognize these as solids. Gully’s idea of exploding back to ground zero and working forward from there would be faster and easier than trying to fix the model as-is.Īs an variation to his approach, after exploding you could create a component of each separate letter. I wish I could give you as nice and tight an answer as for the first, but along the way you have made somewhat of a mess of the model and there are many things that need to be corrected first. Your second objective is to inset the lettering into the face of the board. They will then disappear, per his picture.

Your first stated objective is trimming away the areas outside your line, and I believe John provided the answer: open Slurp sign#11 for edit and use the pushpull tool to push the faces outside your freehand line to the back of the board. SketchUp doesn’t accept a Group or Component as a solid when it has multiple, disjoint nested items, even if taken one at a time they would be solids. In every other case, you have groups or components that nest multiple other ones and usually also loose primitive geometry (edges, faces). In your model, the only thing that is a solid is the letter “O#3”. Gully gave you a nutshell definition of “solid” in SketchUp.

#Make a solid in sketchup plus

Unless I misunderstand, there are really two objectives you are trying to accomplish in your model, plus confusion about what constitutes a solid in SketchUp.